I'd still like to know why some people will eat a cow, a pig, a chicken, maybe even a horse, etc., but will not eat a dog or a cat that is going to be dead anyway and whose meat is otherwise going to be completely wasted.

redwill wrote:I'd still like to know why some people will eat a cow, a pig, a chicken, maybe even a horse, etc., but will not eat a dog or a cat that is going to be dead anyway and whose meat is otherwise going to be completely wasted.

It's pretty stupid to refuse to eat nutritious meat, isn't it?

I'm with Canaan, redwill. But at the end of the day, that's just not an American societal norm. Believe me, I understand the disconnect there, and I'm understanding of it. It's not like I could easily try it if I wanted to.

Gaucho wrote:I hate it when people challenge my vegetarianism by using tastiness as an argument.

You're right, it isn't an argument.

It's a fact.

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Shyster wrote:Based on the extremely small amounts of horse content they are finding in most of the cases (like 0.1%), my guess would be that someone didn’t clean the industrial meat grinder between running a batch of horse meat and then running a batch of beef.

I don't think it's a matter of not cleaning the grinder. If there was enough meat left behind to contaminate a subsequent batch, then we'd be talking about mass food poisoning not just "Ew, Mr. Ed is in my burger".

At any rate, it presents a thoroughly adequate argument for the purchase of your own meat grinder and doing that work yourself. (The other argument being that you can safely cook self-ground meat to much lower temps and not be worried about food-borne illness.)

You're presuming it's nutritious.... there's actually a fairly high risk of vitamin poisoning from dog meat, and there have been cases (admittedly rare) where rabies has been transmitted via cooked dog meat. So it isn't really a 1:1 proxy like you assert.

Venison, Elk, Moose,various African game antelope are delicious. Squirrel, rabbit, grouse, pretty tasty to a lesser extent. No need to waste good game. Yes, they're cute, but there's also a lot of them and again, they taste good and I provide a cleaner, more humane death than the slaughterhouses do. Plus, I know I'm not eating a bunch of chemicals and synthetic hormones.

Shyster wrote:Based on the extremely small amounts of horse content they are finding in most of the cases (like 0.1%), my guess would be that someone didn’t clean the industrial meat grinder between running a batch of horse meat and then running a batch of beef.

I don't think it's a matter of not cleaning the grinder. If there was enough meat left behind to contaminate a subsequent batch, then we'd be talking about mass food poisoning not just "Ew, Mr. Ed is in my burger".

At any rate, it presents a thoroughly adequate argument for the purchase of your own meat grinder and doing that work yourself. (The other argument being that you can safely cook self-ground meat to much lower temps and not be worried about food-borne illness.)

You're presuming it's nutritious.... there's actually a fairly high risk of vitamin poisoning from dog meat, and there have been cases (admittedly rare) where rabies has been transmitted via cooked dog meat. So it isn't really a 1:1 proxy like you assert.

You say "contaminated" like horse meat is automatically poisonous or something. Meat contamination could easily happen with a pig as it would a horse. That fact that it's a horse should be irrelevant.

Also, if the rabies transmitted dog meat were found in countries like Vietnam or the Philippines, then that shouldn't be much of a surprise. Sometimes they pick the dogs literally off the street. They hardly have the same regulations as the U.S.

OutofFoil wrote:Venison, Elk, Moose,various African game antelope are delicious. Squirrel, rabbit, grouse, pretty tasty to a lesser extent. No need to waste good game. Yes, they're cute, but there's also a lot of them and again, they taste good and I provide a cleaner, more humane death than the slaughterhouses do. Plus, I know I'm not eating a bunch of chemicals and synthetic hormones.

redwill wrote:I'd still like to know why some people will eat a cow, a pig, a chicken, maybe even a horse, etc., but will not eat a dog or a cat that is going to be dead anyway and whose meat is otherwise going to be completely wasted.